World - Enlightenment Vocab

The book written by Rousseau that detailed how government should only be created by a mutual agreement between the people and a break in the agreement could lead to the creation of a new government.

• The Social Contract

• Two Treatises of Government

• Leviathan

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

The system popularized by Montesquieu that involved the division of government power in order to prevent an abuse of power.

• The Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

• Enlightenment

The political philosopher who argued that tyranny would exist unless there was a separation of powers in government.

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• John Locke

John Locke’s phrase represents what he believed all people are born with and should be protected by the government.

• Natural Rights

• A College Savings Account

• Health Care

• A Social Contract

The political philosopher who believed man was good by nature, right to life, liberty, property, and believed revolution can be justified if rulers neglect to serve the people.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

The intellectual revolution of the 16th-18th centuries that was inspired by scientific reasoning and experimentation.

• The Enlightenment

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Renaissance

• The Great Awakening

The Swiss political philosopher who believed government put people in chains, but if government must exist it should be at a very basic level for the protection of the people; he wrote about this in his book, The Social Contract.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

The political philosopher who believed man was wicked by nature and needed an absolute monarch to govern him, writing about this in his book The Leviathan.

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Creed Bratton

The document that stated the American colonies are now independent from the British government.

• The Declaration of Independence

• The US Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Bill of Rights

The political and social philosopher of France who was repeatedly punished for criticizing the corruption of the French government, aristocracy, and church.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Locke